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Imagining Paris : Exile, Writing, and American Identity
Imagining Paris Exile Writing and American Identity Author:J. Kennedy In this highly readable book, J. Gerald Kennedy explores the imaginative process of five expatriate Americans-Gertrude Stein, Ernest Hemingway, Henry Miller, F. Scott Fitzgerald, and Djuna Barnes-by showing how the experience of living in Paris shaped their careers and literary works. In a sensitive and lucid manner, Kennedy discusses the inner ... more »map of Paris each of these authors reconstructed out of their various struggles to accommodate themselves to a complex, foreign scene; to construct an expatriate self; or to understand the contradictions of American identity.« less